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[comicdonna]

I don't own this anymore but, it was really cool. It's from 1941

[BangZoom]

 

Very nice.

 

I've never seen that one before.

 

I think it's extra nice that you have the envelope.

[BangZoom]

One of my favorite books in my collection.

 

 

 

I like that issue, too.

 

Timely's boldness in advertising another title on the front cover made it very memorable to me.

 

 

[comicdonna]

Very nice.

 

I've never seen that one before.

 

I think it's extra nice that you have the envelope.

Thanks. Mr. Bedrock can attest that it was in remarkeable condition. It's not too often that I had something to share in this thread. When I saw the current topic, I thought I would contribute.

[Doohickamabob]

Happy Birthday! (1909-1956) and thanks for the honey... (HCH #57 'Kidnap Racket' 1952)

 

 

Hey it's Honey Dorian, Rip Kirby's girlfriend. Quite a coincidence -- I was just reading about her yesterday in Maurice Horn's "Women in the Comics" (which, strangely, has no entry for Blonde Phantom).

[BB-Gun]

Continuing along with the birthday theme...

 

The D ick Tracy comic strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror.

 

Here is one of his early comic book appearances.

 

 

I think that story was also in Harvey DT 140.

 

[adamstrange]

I thought this was a nice illustrated article about Frazetta. DocDave sometimes posts in the OA Forum.

 

http://pictorialartsjournal.blogspot.com/2011/10/long-live-frazetta.html

[Ted Knight]

I thought this was a nice illustrated article about Frazetta. DocDave sometimes posts in the OA Forum.

 

http://pictorialartsjournal.blogspot.com/2011/10/long-live-frazetta.html

Great link! Thanks for the post.

[BangZoom]

I thought this was a nice illustrated article about Frazetta. DocDave sometimes posts in the OA Forum.

 

http://pictorialartsjournal.blogspot.com/2011/10/long-live-frazetta.html

 

Thanks for the link.

 

I'm familiar with DocDave's blog but I don't think I'd ever ever visited Thom Buchanan's site prior to today.

 

My personal all time favorite blog is Golden Age Comic Book Stories which I recommend highly to everyone.

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Ever hear of Mo Gollub ?

 

Well, it's his birthday today so let's take a look at some of his artwork for Dell comics.

 

Prior to beginning work in the comic field, he worked as an animator for Disney. You can see what a natural he was at conveying figures in action.

 

 

 

 

 

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I think that story was also in Harvey DT 140.

 

 

The Yogee Yamma storyline was heavily condensed in Four Color #96.

 

They edited the entire story down to only 8 pages.

 

I wonder if D ick Tracy #140 ran a less edited version?

[Scrooge]

IRRC, the Harvey Tracy books reprinted the strips without skipping so the entire sequence would be reprinted but for length, the issues didn't reprint sequences conveniently in that you had to buy the next issue to finish the storyline. But I'm sure you knew that.

[adamstrange]

My personal all time favorite blog is Golden Age Comic Book Stories which I recommend highly to everyone.

 

I visit the site once a week. There's always something interesting to enjoy looking at or reading about.

[adamstrange]

Ever hear of Mo Gollub ?

 

Well, it's his birthday today so let's take a look at some of his artwork for Dell comics.

 

Prior to beginning work in the comic field, he worked as an animator for Disney.You can see what a natural he must have been at conveying figures in action.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm familiar with his covers but had not noticed his interiors before. Definitely good stuff! (thumbs u

[BB-Gun]

 

 

I think that story was also in Harvey DT 140.

 

 

The Yogee Yamma storyline was heavily condensed in Four Color #96.

 

They edited the entire story down to only 8 pages.

 

I wonder if D ick Tracy #140 ran a less edited version?

 

I have both issues and will have to compare. Apparently, DT 139 and 140 tell the story of the Yogi and the Professor. The Yogi gets torched in his final scene which is edited in the Harvey issue. However, the two Harvey issue have the complete story while the Four Color issue only tells the second half.

Edited October 7, 2011 by BB-Gun

[Theagenes]

Ever hear of Mo Gollub ?

 

Well, it's his birthday today so let's take a look at some of his artwork for Dell comics.

 

Prior to beginning work in the comic field, he worked as an animator for Disney.You can see what a natural he must have been at conveying figures in action.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm familiar with his covers but had not noticed his interiors before. Definitely good stuff! (thumbs u

 

I agree---I like it!

[BangZoom]

 

Happy birthday, Fritzi.

 

 

 

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Fritzi Ritz was an American comic strip created in 1922 by Larry Whittington. It eventually evolved into the popular Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller.

 

Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Fritzi Ritz began October 9, 1922, in the New York Evening World. When Whittington left in 1925, 20-year-old Bushmiller stepped in as his replacement, modeling Fritzi after his fiance, Abby Bohnet, whom he married in 1930. In 1931, when the Evening World and the New York Telegram merged, Fritzi Ritz was one of the strips lost in the shuffle, but she returned January 10, 1932 in the New York Daily Mirror.

 

Characters and storyAt least for the first decade or so, Fritzi Ritz was a silly, frivolous flapper, whose main concerns were men, clothes, cosmetics and money. Readers familiar with the somewhat more responsible Aunt Fritzi (who was Nancy's guardian) would be surprised to encounter the original Fritzi, who was quite sexually active (between the lines) and was constantly throwing herself at good looking or rich men.

 

In one 1920s strip, she says she is 19 years of age. In later decades, she appears to be in her late twenties or early thirties. The December 3, 1930 strip finds Fritzi stating she was born in New York. She worked as an actress. Her boss, Mr. Blobbs, a short plump man with glasses, was a nice guy, although sometimes cheap. Blobbs' last appearance was in May 1932.

 

On January 2, 1933, Nancy, Fritzi's niece, appeared as a house guest and very quickly overtook the strip. During the 1930s, it is mentioned at least twice that Fritzi and Nancy live in New York City, though it is uncertain whether that means Manhattan or another borough. It is mentioned during the 1935 continuity when Nancy runs away from home and winds up at an Indian reservation. After that period, their city of residence is never mentioned again.

 

By 1938, when Sluggo Smith was added, the daily was renamed Nancy and Fritzi became a guardian, or quasi-mother, for Nancy. From that point on, Fritzi seemed to lose a lot of her vitality and enjoyment of life, and she often admonished Nancy for various infractions, telling her she could not do this or eat that. In her own Sunday strip, however, Fritzi seemed more vivacious and lively.

 

[edit] Daily stripThe Fritzi Ritz daily strip began Monday, October 16, 1922, though some sources say October 9. During that decade, Fritzi's parents were seen regularly, though her mother didn't appear nearly as often as her father. Fritzi began working at Star Studios in February 1923. Most of the 1920s gags took place at work, either in the studio or on location shooting at the beach, the mountains, in the country or at a farm. In 1925, Larry Whittington left the strip to create another, Mazie the Model. In May of that year, Bushmiller took over the strip, and Fritzi began dating a regular boyfriend, usually Wally.

 

By 1927, her mother disappeared completely, though her father appeared until the mid-1930s. The gags taking place at work seemed to diminish by the early 1930s, and the strip took place more around the house and neighborhood. During the 1931-32 period, Fritzi's cousin James appeared. He was about ten years old and usually had a mean scowl on his face. Bushmiller was attempting to pair Fritzi with a child, but James did not catch on. It may have been James' bad attitude that did him in, though some cantankerous, mean characters have been popular in strips. He struck gold when he tried again, introducing Nancy in January 1933. James disappeared once Nancy was introduced.

 

Judging by very extensive examination of Fritzi Ritz dailies at newspaperarchive.com, Nancy made her first appearance in the January 2, 1933 daily strip as a house guest, despite other sources stating both August and December 1933 as her first appearance. There was never a sequence of episodes exploring Fritzi's adoption of Nancy; Nancy just seemed to appear as Fritzi's niece and gradually was seen more and more often throughout the 1930s. An examination of the very first week of Nancy's appearance in January 1933 has Nancy addressing Fritzi like a sister, not "Aunt" Fritzi. However, very quickly Nancy shows her respect to her aunt.

 

Occasionally, Fritzi's rich Uncle Zack appeared, though he only lasted a few years in the mid-1930s. Oddly, it was rare for Fritzi's father and her boss to appear together; also rare for her father and uncle to appear together as well. Apparently Bushmiller believed Fritzi needed only one male father figure at a time. Lastly, the daily strip was never officially called Nancy and Sluggo, although in the 1950s and 1960s the comic book was changed from Nancy to Nancy and Sluggo during its Dell Comics run, but it was always called Nancy and Sluggo during its St. John Publishing and Gold Key runs.

 

[edit] Sunday stripThe first Fritzi Ritz Sunday page began October 6, 1929. A few years later, Phil Fumble was added as a separate Sunday. Nancy, who first appeared in the Fritzi dailies in January 1933, appeared sporadically in the Fritzi Ritz Sundays as well. Through the 1930s, Nancy began to overtake Fritzi's world and in late 1938, Nancy began as a separate Sunday, and Phil Fumble, losing his own strip, began appearing in the Fritzi Ritz Sundays. This was the first time Phil and Fritzi teamed up. Fritzi's previous boyfriend, Wally, disappeared completely. Thus, Wally and Phil Fumble never fought over Fritzi's affections.

 

In January 1938, Sluggo Smith made his first appearance in the dailies, and through 1938, Nancy and Sluggo were often in the Fritzi Ritz Sundays. Proving the pair's popularity, it was not unusual to find Fritzi Ritz Sundays in 1938 to only have Nancy and Sluggo in the episode with Fritzi nowhere to be seen.

 

Phil Fumble did not appear in any of the dailies. Only rarely were Nancy and Phil seen together; Phil and Sluggo almost never appeared together. Phil did join Nancy and Sluggo in new comic book stories or comic book cover gags. Some of the comic book covers, especially in the 1940s, were done by Bushmiller himself. As the 1950s progressed, Bushmiller ceased drawing any comic book covers for St. John Publishing, Dell and Gold Key Comics comic books.

 

From late 1938 on, Phil Fumble appeared only in the Fritzi Ritz Sundays as Fritzi's sole boyfriend until the Fritzi Ritz page ended in 1968. Bushmiller ceased drawing the Sundays in the late 1940s. Later Fritzi Sundays were drawn by various ghost artists, such as Bernard "Dib" Dibble and Al Plastino. Non-Bushmiller Fritzi Sunday artwork was less detailed than Bushmiller's style when compared to the mid-1930s/1940s style. Dibble's style was different from Bushmiller's, as evident in Fritzi Sundays of the 1950s. Fritzi and Phil never married.

 

 

 

[ciorac]

Still slowly working on getting every Fritzi cover

[Jeffro.]

[Doohickamabob]

Happy birthday, Fritzi.

 

Polka dots have rarely looked so nice.